British Army troops attend to wounded comrades after their Land Rover was attacked by small arms fire, crashed into a taxi and flipped over in the southern city of Basra April 11, 2004. REUTERS/Atef Hassan CLH/WS - RTRH8GP

Royal Marines from Juliet Company 42 Commando stand outside Saddam Hussein's palace at Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003. British paratroopers guarded by tanks and helicopter gunships walked unopposed into the centre of Iraq's second city of Basra on Monday, meeting a warm reception in the narrow streets of the old quarter. REUTERS/POOL/Jon Mills - Western Daily Press ASA - RTRLHJ8

Iraqi men are frisked by a British Army soldier before being allowed to re-enter the southern city of Basra March 31, 2003. Picture taken March 31, 2003. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo - RTX2JUK9

A woman and child react after a British raid in Basra April 22, 2007. British forces raided two houses in eastern Basra, killing a man who was taking a rifle from a cupboard believing his intention was to open fire upon them, the British military said. Two other people were arrested and a number of weapons were seized. REUTERS/Atef Hassan

A woman weeps as she looks at the Basra memorial wall before its rededication at the National Arboretum in Alrewas, central England, March 11, 2010. Prime Minister Gordon Brown was among the guests as a memorial wall to British soldiers killed in Iraq was rededicated in Staffordshire on Thursday. The Basra Memorial Wall was originally built in the southern Iraqi city four years ago as a monument to the 178 armed forces personnel and one Ministry of Defence civilian who died during British operations in the country between 2003 and 2009. REUTERS/Darren Staples

The coffin of Black Watch soldier Sergeant Stuart Gray is taken from Trinity Parish Church during his funeral in Cowdenbeath in Fife, Scotland, November 18, 2004. Sergeant Gray was killed in a suicide attack near Falluja in Iraq on November 4. REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell JJM/ASA - RTRG1DH

An Iraqi woman walks back home to the southern city of Basara as fires rage in the distance April 3, 2003. British forces muscled into the outskirts of Iraq's second city of Basra early on Thursday, capturing an industrial estate where Iraqi militia had spearheaded fierce resistance. PP03040010 Pictures of the month April 2003. Pictures of the Year 2003 REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis YB/WS - RTRLBVM

British Royal Air Force personnel wait in a bunker wearing full Nuclear Biological and Chemical suits after a warning of a Scud missile attack on their base in Kuwait March 20, 2003. Picture taken March 20, 2003. REUTERS/Russell Boyce/File Photo - RTX2JVB0

A British soldier shakes hands with a boy at a checkpoint in Basra, 550km (340 miles) south of Baghdad November 4, 2006. REUTERS/Atef Hassan

A British soldier patrols on an armoured vehicle in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad, March 12, 2008. REUTERS/Atef Hassan

Anti-war protestors hold up a banner as HMS Ocean sails out of Plymouth Sound from Devonport Naval Base for exercises in the Mediterranean and Far East, January 16, 2003. A battle group of elite British Royal Marines left for the Mediterranean on Thursday as the country's largest amphibious task force in 20 years deploys for a possible war against Iraq. REUTERS/Stephen Hird SH/ASA - RTRGNCO

British Former Prime Minister Tony Blair appears in a recording, which also includes US President George W. Bush, which is to be broadcast on Iraqi television April 10, 2003. REUTERS/HOJV - RTRLOD4

British Royal Air Force Harrier GR7 taxis out on its base in Kuwait past dozens of U.S. F18's prior to their mission over Iraq March 27, 2003. Picture taken March 27, 2003. REUTERS/POOL/Russell Boyce/File Photo - RTX2JV9C

A boy throws a rock at a burning British consulate vehicle after it was attacked by gunmen with a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) launcher in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad, October 16, 2006. Gunmen attacked a British consulate convoy with a RPG, wounded a foreign security guard and set fire to one of its vehicles in Basra, a British consulate spokeswoman in Basra said. REUTERS/Atef Hassan

Firemen hose down a burning fuel truck after it was attacked by gunmen in Basra May 21, 2007. At least one British soldier was wounded when gunmen attacked a military fuel truck in Basra, the British military said. REUTERS/Atef Hassan

Anti-war protestors assemble at the start of a mass rally in London to oppose a military strike on Iraq, September 28, 2002. Joint organisers Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain estimated at least 100,000 were participating int he anti-war protest. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid PKM/ASA/WS - RTRB8I0

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATHBritish Army troops are covered in flames from a petrol bomb thrown during a violent protest by job seekers, who say they were promised employment in the security services, in the southern Iraq city of Basra March 22, 2004. Picture taken March 22, 2004. REUTERS/Atef Hassan/File Photo TEMPLATE OUT - RTX2JUK5

A man waves a pistol near a burning vehicle after a roadside bomb attack in Basra May 25, 2007. A sports utility vehicle of a foreign security company in Basra was destroyed after a bomb attack by insurgents, a British spokesperson said. REUTERS/Atef Hassan

A British Warrior armoured combat vehicle drives into a picture of Saddam Hussein in the city of Basra, in southern Iraq, March 24, 2003. British forces scoured the Iraqi desert for two missing soldiers on Monday but said the U.S.-led war could weather setbacks hitting both the air and ground campaign. REUTERS/POOL/Mark Richards PP03030070 MD - RTRKT1K

A British army officer has her handgun cocked as Iraqi civilians flee fighting in Basra April 6, 2003. After a two-week siege, British tanks shot their way into the centre of Basra on Sunday in a bid to stamp out dogged resistance in Iraq's second city from paramilitary fighters loyal to President Saddam Hussein. PP03040015 Pictures of the month April 2003 REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis YB/JV - RTRLFYO

A British military helicopter lands during an operation in central Basra May 21, 2005. British soldiers aboard the helicopter stopped and searched a vehicle after receiving information that it might be carrying weapons or a bomb. Three men in the vehicle were questioned and released after nothing was found inside the car, eye witnesses said. REUTERS/Atef Hassen Pictures of the month May 2005 DKA/VP - RTRBY4I

British Royal Marines Omar Rawlings (L) and Del Morton of 40 Commando smile as they squeeze into their dug-in position in mud after heavy rainstorms north of the Al Faw peninsula on the approach to Basra March 25, 2003. U.S. troops killed hundreds of Iraqi soldiers near the city of Najaf south of Baghdad without losing a man, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, as reports emerged of a possible popular uprising against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the southern city of Basra. REUTERS/POOL/Terry Richards KM - RTRKUSK

British soldier prepares to jump from a burning tank which was set ablaze after a shooting incident in the southern Iraqi city of Basra September 19, 2005. Angry crowds attacked a British tank with petrol bombs and rocks in Basra on Monday after Iraqi authorities said they had detained two British undercover soldiers in the southern city for firing on police. Two Iraqis were killed in the violence, an Interior Ministry official said. REUTERS/Atef Hassan - RTROPHR

A team of weapons inspectors from the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) search a military industrial complex, Al-Tariq General Company, some 90 km (56 miles) northwest of Baghdad and near the town of Fallujah December 9, 2002. Picture taken December 9, 2002. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem/File Photo - RTX2JVB3

Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks to British soldiers at Divisional Headquarters in Basra May 19, 2007. Blair, on his last visit to Iraq as prime minister, said on Saturday he had no regrets about his part in the U.S.-led invasion that removed Saddam Hussein. On a farewell trip to a country whose future may define his legacy after a decade in power, Blair met Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani and discussed the situation in Iraq, which is beset by sectarian violence. REUTERS/Stefan Rousseau/WPA/Pool - RTR1PVEP

An Iraqi militiaman, armed with a rocket-propelled grenade, passes a burning British vehicle after it came under attack in the southern city of Basra August 17, 2004. Foreigners travelling in two British vehicles were taken to safety by British troops in Iraq's second largest city of Basra, 550 km south of Baghdad, after their convoy came under attack by a roadside bomb on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the British Army said. REUTERS/Atef Hassan HH/JV - RTR8SHN

British soldier sits in armoured vehicle after hearing that two colleagues from Black Watch had been injured. British soldier Greg McPherson, 19, from Dundee sits in his Warrior armoured vehicle after hearing that two soldiers from the Black Watch had been injured in an earlier incident November 7, 2004. Two British soldiers were injured near their post south of Baghdad in Iraq on Sunday, the Ministry of Defence said. "At 9.22 local time (0622 GMT) this morning, two British soldiers were injured in an incident in the vicinity of Camp Dogwood," a spokesman said. REUTERS/Maurice McDonald/Pool - RTRF6QG

A handout shows a coffin of a serviceman killed when a British Hercules aircraft crashed over Iraq being repatriated back to the UK from Basra airport. A handout photograph shows a coffin of a serviceman killed when an RAF Hercules plane crashed over Iraq, being repatriated back to the UK from Basra airport, in southern Iraq, February 7, 2005. The crash took place on January 30, killing 10 servicemen when the Hercules aircraft exploded in mid-air 40km from Baghdad. EDITORIAL USE ONLY - REUTERS/Staff Sergeant Chris Crawford/Handout - RTRMM49

Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair (C) visits British troops in Basra, southern Iraq December 17, 2006. Picture taken December 17, 2006. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh/File Photo - RTX2JULR

British soldiers of RAF Regiment enter an abandoned building while on patrol in Iraq's southern marshlands near Basra December 16, 2005, a day after elections for the country's first full-term parliament since Saddam Hussein's overthrow. Millions of ballot papers were being counted and recounted on Friday as Iraqis celebrated a peaceful election that saw rebellious Sunni Arabs join in for the first time, pushing turnout close to 70 percent. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj - RTR1B61T

A convoy of British armoured vehicles patrol a road after pulling out from Basra Palace, in Basra, 550 km (342 miles) south of Baghdad September 3, 2007. British troops quit the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, an Iraqi general said, ending the British presence in the oil hub for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. REUTERS/Handout